Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

StreetNet Interational: Organizing for Social Protection

This pamphlet showcases the work and goals of StreetNet International in helping street vendors gain social protection. It was produced with...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Bangkok, Thailand

HomeNet Southeast Asia, in collaboration with regional advocacy platform SEA Junction and WIEGO, held a panel discussion on social protection...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Always on Call: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia

A comparative analysis of paid leave for the health needs of workers and their families around the world

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The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers

In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,...

Towards an Inclusive Occupational Health and Safety For Informal Workers

Abstract: Large numbers of workers worldwide work informally. Yet the discipline and practice of occupational health and safety covers largely...